Dennis Christopher
Acting • Born 1950-12-02
Biography
Dennis Christopher (born Dennis Carrelli on December 2, 1955) is an American actor. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for playing Dave Stoller in Breaking Away and tragic film buff psychopath Eric Binford in Fade to Black. His Golden Globe-nominated breakthrough role was as Dave Stohler in the coming-of-age classic Breaking Away (1979). Other roles include American track star Charlie Paddock in Chariots of Fire, and Fade to Black, science fiction movies like Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II. He has appeared in nearly 40 movies and made-for-TV movies since 1975. Television roles include "Jack of All Trades" in the Profiler TV series, Eddie Kaspbrak in Stephen King's It, Desmond Floyd in Jake Speed, and in the HBO series Deadwood. Christopher has guest starred in two Star Trek episodes: the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Search (Part II)" and the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Detained". He also guest-starred as the demon-sorcerer Cyvus Vail in three episodes of Angel. Christopher had a reunion with Breaking Away "father" Paul Dooley, again as his son, in an episode of TV's Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The two had first played father and son in Robert Altman's A Wedding. In December 2006 he played Dr. Martin Ruber in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries The Lost Room.
Filmography
89 credits
Breaking Away
Movie • 1979
Dave Stoller
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
Movie • 1994
Leech
Circuitry Man
Movie • 1990
Leech
Chariots of Fire
Movie • 1981
Charles Paddock
The Silencers
Movie • 1996
Comdor
Fade to Black
Movie • 1980
Eric Binford
Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
Movie • 1995
Pruitt Taylor Beauchamp
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
Movie • 1996
Philip D'Arnot
Queen of the Lot
Movie • 2010
Odin Johannessen
Doppelganger
Movie • 1993
Doctor Heller
Django Unchained
Movie • 2012
Leonide Moguy
September 30, 1955
Movie • 1977
Eugene
The Falling
Movie • 1986
Damon
A Wedding
Movie • 1978
Hughie Brenner
Blood and Lace
Movie • 1971
Pete
Dangerous Isolation
Movie • 2006
Adrien
Didn’t You Hear?
Movie • 1970
Kevin
It's My Party
Movie • 1996
Douglas Reedy
Dead Women in Lingerie
Movie • 1991
Lapin
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Movie • 1976
Charley
A Sinful Life
Movie • 1989
Nathan Flowers
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
Movie • 1982
Brian Anderson
Friends
Movie • 1987
John
California Dreaming
Movie • 1979
T.T.
Boys Life
Movie • 1994
Mr. Reese (The Disco Years)
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
Movie • 1999
Self
False Arrest
Movie • 1991
Wally Roberts
Jake Speed
Movie • 1986
Desmond Floyd
Prisoners
Movie • 2013
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Skeletons
Movie • 1997
Jim Norton
The Young Graduates
Movie • 1971
Pan
Elvis
Movie • 1979
Nick Adams
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
Movie • 1992
Randy
The Last Word
Movie • 1979
Ben Travis
Necronomicon
Movie • 1993
Dale Porkel
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Movie • 2001
Joshua 'Carrots' Beale
Flight of the Spruce Goose
Movie • 1986
Stan
Jack and the Beanstalk
Movie • 1983
Jack
Nine Lives
Movie • 2004
Mikey
Mind Rage
Movie • 1996
Steve
Roma
Movie • 1972
The Hippie (uncredited)
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
Movie • 2021
Himself
Jobriath A.D.
Movie • 2012
Himself
The Disco Years
Movie • 1994
Mr. Reese
3 Women
Movie • 1977
Soda Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Aurora: Operation Intercept
Movie • 1995
Victor Varenkov
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Movie • 2022
Self
Battle at Versailles
Movie • 2016
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
Movie • 2012
Self
Inside the Lost Room
Movie • 2007
Self
SILENCERS
Movie
Comdor
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Dr. Henry Carlson
Six Feet Under
TV • 2001
Kevin Lamb
Deadwood
TV • 2004
Bellegarde
Star Trek: Enterprise
TV • 2001
Danik
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Homeless Guy
Matlock
TV • 1986
Noel Bishop
seaQuest DSV
TV • 1993
Ambassador Dillington
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Killer
Moonlighting
TV • 1985
Benjamin Wylie
Angel
TV • 1999
Cyvus Vail
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Richard Dorsey
The Lost Room
TV • 2006
Dr. Martin Ruber
Criminal Minds
TV • 2005
Abner Merriman
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Father Nicholas Kostmayer
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
Jack
Roswell
TV • 1999
Bobby Dupree
Moon Over Miami
TV • 1993
The Watcher
TV • 1995
FreakyLinks
TV • 2000
Vince J. Elsing
It
TV • 1990
Eddie Kaspbrak
Perception
TV • 2012
Fred Gorman
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Lyman Taggart
Unforgettable
TV • 2011
Lukas Emminger
Graves
TV • 2016
Martin Treadwell
NYPD Blue
TV • 1993
Gerard prosser
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Roger Coffman
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV • 2009
Self
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV • 1993
Borath
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
TV • 1996
Paul D’Arnot
The Sentinel
TV • 1996
Anthony Bates
New York Undercover
TV • 1994
Dr. Royce
Crossing Jordan
TV • 2001
Charles Rutledge
Pacific Blue
TV • 1996
Mortimer T. Anton
Profiler
TV • 1996
Jack of All Trades
Profiler
TV • 1996
Sheriff Ed Post
Profiler
TV • 1996
Sheriff Ed Post / Jack of All Trades
Profiler
TV • 1996
Jack of All Trades / Albert Newquay